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Get Ready for the Extrusion '15 Conference

If you are involved in extrusion as either a processor or supplier, it’s not too early to mark your calendar for Nov. 2-3, 2015. That’s when Plastics Technology will host the first-ever conference devoted to extrusion. The Extrusion 2015 Conference will take place on those dates in North Carolina at The Omni Charlotte Hotel.

Of course, many other types of extrusion-related conferences have been held over the years. In fact, we at Plastics Technology have worked on quite a few. But these have been specific, focusing, for instance, on film/sheet; medical tubing; compounding; and biopolymers, to name a few.

There is a certain logic to organizing a conference along the boundaries of a very specific extrusion process, as there are pronounced differences among them. However, there are quite a few common elements as well. The objective of The Extrusion 2015 Conference is to combine the “specific” aspects of extrusion with the “general” ones.

Here’s how. The morning sessions on each day of this two-day event will be devoted to technical and business issues of interest to any type of extrusion processor. So there will be presentations on topics such as materials; additives; screw design; high-speed processing; energy efficiency; sustainability; filtration, blending, drying and conveying; process simulation; training; size reduction; recycling; resin characterization; foaming; and more.

On each afternoon, there will be concurrent breakout sessions devoted to three specific types of extrusion processes in which your business likely falls: Film/Sheet; Pipe, Profile, Tubing; and Compounding. In these sessions, presentations will dig deeper into topics such as barrier film; thin-gauge sheet; multi-lumen tubing; high-speed compounding; and more.

The plan is for The Extrusion 2015 Conferenced to be a yearly event modeled after the Molding Conference our parent company, Gardner Business Media, purchased last year from Executive Conference Management. Next year will mark the Molding conference’s 25-year anniversary.

We recognize you’re likely more pressed for time now than ever. We also know you have a lot of outside events competing for that time. And on top of that, next year is an NPE year. But our intention is to organize The Extrusion 2015 Conference in such a way so that it’s the only conference you’ll need to attend next year—and beyond—if your business is pumping hot polymer through a die to form a part.

In the months ahead, please be on the lookout in our magazine, this website, and in your own inbox for more information on this groundbreaking event. Or feel free to email me at jcallari@ptonline.com

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